Sentence examples for disputatious from high-quality English sources.

• By 1940, it had become an uprooted, disputatious, and contracting faith.

• But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious.

• But words, in the context of the disputatious Holy Land, matter a great deal, too.

• Ellison’s disputatious personality was legendary among science-fiction aficionados.

• Well, less disputatious and declamatory, which might not have suited Shylock.”

• Digital media platforms are inherently interactive and, well, people are disputatious.

• This can result in an extended to-and-fro that endows parts of the Qurʾān with a decidedly polemical and disputatious quality.

• At a corner table in the dining room of Marea, a restaurant on Central Park South, the conversation was smooth but disputatious.

Use disputatious in a sentence.

• White of Stony Brook University celebrates the disputatious, never-let-them-call-you-a-sucker language that is New York English.

• Feuchtwanger’s “Exil,” translated into English as “Paris Gazette,” is a soulful satire, set among disputatious emigrants in Paris.

• Boileau resumed his disputatious role in 1692, when the literary world found itself divided between the so-called Ancients and Moderns.

• Others led the life of perpetual students, vagabond clerics, or disputatious goliards—the objects of repeated but ineffectual condemnation.

• He watches our disputatious citizenry as one might watch a soap opera on television, or a three-ring circus, or a professional football game.

• It is tempting to draw a straight line from these disputatious eras of Jewish history to the modern period, which is the subject of Goodman’s last chapter.

• IN THE early centuries of eastern Christian history, when doctrines were hammered out at seven disputatious bishops’ councils, theological arguments were on everyone’s mind.

• But whereas Anselm had managed to deflect criticisms of this new approach in theology, Abelard’s disputatious personality alarmed those who were more comfortable with the older style.

disputatious sentence examples

• It was a perfect Parisian tone of voice—not disputatious, just suggesting a love of the shared pursuit of the truth, which, unfortunately, happens not to be in your possession right now.

• Sustained by “the disputatious Australian personality” and the national “lack of deference”, she founded Virago Press in 1973 and began a lifelong campaign to challenge Britain’s snotty imperial delusions.

• None of these, sadly, is either Marlowe or Shakespeare, or even Harold Bloom, but their example demonstrates, I think, that the disputatious professor identified something profoundly important for our understanding - such as it is - of creativity and its mysteries.

• Thus the “humane letters” of classical and Christian antiquity would have a beneficent effect on the mind, in contrast to the disputatious temper induced by scholastic logic-chopping or the vengeful amour propre bred into young aristocrats by chivalric literature, “the stupid and tyrannical fables of King Arthur.”